Networked Notebooks Catalogue

This is a collection of networked notebooks that is slowly taking shape on the Internet. Please feel free to send a PR or leave a comment if you know of any we have missed.

Contemporary

LambdaTank

LambdaTank is a networked notebook with a Turing Complete language as it’s base.

Orgroam

Connected graphs, backlinks, title autocompletion, networked search done in Emacs.

Dokuroam

DokuWiki based implementation of Roam Research. Roam Research has rapidly gained popularity by opening up to new workflows. Has some but not all of Roam’s features, but is in active development.

Zettlr

Basically a markdown editor like Typora, but has a https://docs.zettlr.com/en/guides/guide-zettelkasten/ for handling the connection.

Knovigator

An online application with support for branching and threading like Twitter. Optimized for curation and conversation. Under development.

Leo is a Personal Information Manager / IDE and outliner that accelerates the work flow of programmers, authors and web designers. Outline nodes may appear in more than one place, allowing multiple organizations of data within a single outline.

Jade

An infinite canvas where you can pour out ideas freely and think joyfully. Create, arrange, connect, visualize, remix, search, and re-discover your ideas in an infinite canvas.

Obsidian

Similar to Zettlr, a markdown editor. But has support for zettlekesten mode. Has backlinks and Graph support.

Coppice

Coppice lets you cultivate your thoughts, seeing the connections between them and helping them to grow.

Dendron

Dendron is an open-source, local-first, markdown-based, note-taking tool built on top of VSCode.

Remnote

A comprehensive tool for knowledge management. Includes Spaced Repetition, Graphs, Backlinks etc.

ikiWiki

Basic wiki with backlinks.

Logseq

Logseq is a privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge sharing and management.

nvUltra

Based on the good old notational velocity. Supports Markdown, backlinks etc. Still in Beta Also has a previous version called nvAlt

zim

Basic wiki with backlinks. Supports pretty much all types of linkages

Neuron

A zettelkestan built in Haskell

Prior Art

Xanadu

A philosophy more than a notebook app

WikiWiki

Precursor to Wikipedia / C2

Hypercard

Ward Cunnigham’s Federated Wiki

Up and Coming

Lotu

Not a product per-se, but from the discussion, the prototype seems interesting. It is an attempt to create a densely connected Digital Garden. (The term digital garden has become a popular term for describing websites that incorporate multiple facets of a person’s digital space like notes, blog etc into a single thing and allows visitors to stroll through them seamlessly like a garden with densely connected graph like structure. https://nesslabs.com/mind-garden from Anne-Laure Le Cunff has an excellent explanation of it).